Re: Which card to choose??

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From: Jaco Schoonen
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 12:05

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Hans-Joerg Frieden (hfrieden@fix.uni-trier.de) wrote:
: Jaco Schoonen (jaco@stack.urc.tue.nl) wrote:
: : For other programs: If it runs on 1 gfx card, it runs on all gfx cards. Only
: : well-written programs do so of course.
: Ahem, no, not quite. If it uses cybergraphics library directly, it won't 
: run on a native picasso display. If it uses vilintuisup.library, it 
: probably won't run on a CV64. OK, there is a vilintuisup replacement 
: shipped with CyberGfx, but I don't know what they thought they were doing 
: there, practically nothing runs with this (either double buffering does 
: not work, or the 24 bit color model is wrong, resulting in a garbled 
: display)...

I was referring to the software that only uses the OS routines. Of course
software that uses the cybergraphics/vilintuisup libraries directly doesn't
work. But things like FinalWriter, PageStream and lot's of others that use
standard functions for graphics work fine on every card with a good wb
emulator. Of course that's only for 8bit applications.

--
Jaco Schoonen
(jaco@stack.urc.tue.nl)

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Date: 13 Mar 1996 14:05:56 +0200
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